Object number
64/137/1-8
Description
Eight wooden marking sticks, for setting out the cutting lines on a millstone. Part of a collection of equipment from Drayton Mill, Oxfordshire.
Eight wooden marking sticks, for setting out the cutting lines on a millstone. They are part of a collection of milling equipment (64/123–64/144) from Drayton Mill in Drayton, Oxfordshire.
Archival history
MERL Handwritten form – ‘MARKING STICK // Crafts–Stone–Millstones // 64/137/1–8 // [pencil sketch] ‘Marking stick used for setting out the cutting lines on stone – a feather dipped in red dye (raddle) was run along each side of them’
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